{"id":190246,"date":"2022-05-04T01:57:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=190246"},"modified":"2022-05-04T01:57:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T20:27:09","slug":"union-demands-cancellation-of-non-apst-pri-members-in-lekang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/05\/04\/union-demands-cancellation-of-non-apst-pri-members-in-lekang\/","title":{"rendered":"Union demands &#8216;cancellation&#8217; of non-APST PRI members in Lekang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 3 May:<\/strong> The All Arunachal Pradesh Abotani Students Union (AAPATSU) has threatened to resort to democratic movement against the state government for not responding to its 20-day ultimatum demanding &#8220;immediate cancellation&#8221; of the elected non-APST panchayat members from Lekang constituency in Namsai district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing media persons at the press club on Tuesday, AAPATSU president Langpu Apon Maru said that the union had submitted<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">a representation to Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein on 12 April, demanding action on its demand within 20 days &#8220;but till date, no positive responses have been developed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;AAPATSU demands the state government to immediately cancel the non-APST elected representative from panchayati raj system in Lekang constituency and a separate bill\/act in the state assembly to block the PRC issue permanently,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Lekang constituency is reserved for STs, but almost all the panchayat leaders are non-APST,&#8221; Maru claimed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The union further said that the DCM, &#8220;who represented Lekang constituency for at least 25 years, is well-versed in the PRC issue, so if in future any uprising related to the PRC issue, the sole responsibility would be only on Chowna Mein.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 3 May: The All Arunachal Pradesh Abotani Students Union (AAPATSU) has threatened to resort to democratic movement against the state government for not responding to its 20-day ultimatum demanding &#8220;immediate cancellation&#8221; of the elected non-APST panchayat members from Lekang constituency in Namsai district. Addressing media persons at the press club on Tuesday, AAPATSU president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-190246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}